I will be honest here – I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python’s Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denial…I didn’t think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore. Then I read this, and you should as well: Prepare to be disgusted. Horrific doesn’t even begin to describe [...]
Even more proof that basketball expectations should be restrained
If you thought the out of conference schedule for NC State was going to be tough in 2010 (games against Wisconsin, Syracuse, Arizona and potentially Georgetown), take a look at the ACC schedule. N.C. State (8 to 10) Twice: UNC, Wake, Clem, Duke, FSU Home only: GT, Miami, VT Road only: BC, Md, UVa Joe [...]
NC State vs NCAA Tournament teams
Now that the season is over, and Duke has won the national championship for 2010, we can fully take stock of the Wolfpack basketball team and see how well they performed against NCAA Tournament teams. As many of us know, this year’s team was 7-7 against NCAA Tournament teams. How does that compare to past [...]
Stat of the Day: Sagarin Strength of Schedule ratings (2000-2008)
2009 ACC Strength of Schedule
It’s time once again to look and see how unbalanced conference schedules affected the ACC season. This is our fourth year with a 16-game conference schedule in a 12-team conference. Our previous looks are listed below, but some of the tables no longer look quite as nice as they did when they were first done. [...]
OTR: Predict Pack’s ACC Record (with bonus imbalanced schedule stats)
It’s that time of year again! Time for you to go ‘On the Record’ with your Wolfpack perspectives and knowledge. State opens the season tomorrow with an extremely difficult task on the road at Clemson (we’ve got your pre-game discussion) And, the schedule doesn’t necessarily get THAT much easier. You can view the imbalanced nature [...]
Stat of the Day – BBall SOS
Did you know that the average out of conference strength of the schedule for the past six college basketball national champions is 150?
Series with Marquette & other dates (Updated 7/25)
Link MU and NC State have agreed in principle to a home-and-home series beginning this season at the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C. The series had been in the works for the past month or so, with NC State working behind the scenes to move a guarantee game in order to accomodate MU. Having recently [...]
Non-Conference Gets Upgrade for ’09, ’10, ’11 (Updated)
Those looking for tough out-of-conference scheduling need look no further than January 3, 2009 when NC State comes down to Gainesville to pay me a visit in a showdown with the Florida Gators. Of course we have yet to see how the conference schedule pans out, but most likely this will be the “tune-up” game [...]
ACC Strength of Schedule
If you’re new around here, this will be the third year that we’ve examined the ACC regular season schedules to see who got the easier/harder regular-season schedules. In the aftermath of ACC expansion and unbalanced schedules, it’s always been obvious that the schedules will vary in difficulty and I was curious to see how much [...]